The Country Crises

The flag of Country Z stood tall on the training ground, or more of a forest. The trees are tall and almost reaching the sky. 

Sounds of angry growls could be heard in the wide space, as the sun shone on the petite body of a lady facing a wolf whose growls could shake the sky and blast the ears of the listeners but not the lady standing in front of it. 

She stood in front of the wolf with a taunt face, her cold eyes looking sharply and vigilantly at the angry wolf which was putting on a last fight after being stabbed in the left eye. Seeing the wolf's remaining eye on her, she bent in defense, ready to defend and attack it with the Swiss knife she was holding which was dripping blood as she had used it in injuring the wolf. 

 The wolf's cold eyes watched her too as he looked at his opponent which had injured it, it looked for a chance to attack, and when it found one, it jumped and attacked her, his sharp paws aiming for her tummy, it has almost succeeded when its neck got grabbed then it felt the weight on its back. 

The wolf tried shaking off the weight on its back but she held on to its neck, as she clamped her legs around its stomach like she was climbing a horse. The wolf tumbled around which caused her leg to scrap, but she held on to the neck. Then when she was stable, she raised her left hand and aimed the Swiss knife as she stabbed the wolf in the neck deeply. The painful cries of the wolf sounded loud, as the body thrashed around trying to shake the weight on his back so he could escape but the lady held tightly as she twisted the knife more deeply. Feeling the wolf quietened down she removed the bloody knife and jumped down before the body of the wolf could fall. 

Looking coldly at the wolf she had just killed, she took out a tissue from her shirt and thoroughly cleaned her weapon, not caring about the dead wolf anymore. 

"Good! Good! Sea, you are faster than the last time, you have broken your records again." 

The voice of an excited man destroyed the silence in the forest. The man walked closer to Sea as he showed her the stopwatch used in calculating time for training purposes. It was Two Minutes and twenty seconds, but Sea wasn't interested as she ignored him, just focusing on what she was doing. 

Not minding her silence as he was used to it, Gabriel continued throwing praises at her, his excited voice rang loudly in the forest forcing Sea to focus on him. Her black deep emotionless eyes looked chillingly at him, her eyes were black but with a touch of red which looked like the color of blood coming out of the neck of the wolf. 

"Noisy." Her hoarse and crisp voice sounded emotionlessly scaring the man into holding his lips as he looked afraidly at the lady, then immediately looked down when she looked at him. Her eyes were so piercing making him not dare look her in the eyes. 

The sound of a phone broke the boring silence. Gabriel immediately took out his phone as he knew it could only be his since Sea didn't have a phone. Seeing the name showing on the call, his face turned serious as he immediately picked up, as he stood on attention. 

"Commander!" His loud voice which was filled with respect sounded as he saluted the man on the other side even if the other man couldn't see him. 

"Where is Sea? Is she done? If she is, I want you to drive her to the military meeting ground, her attention is needed, don't delay." The voice of the Commander ordered then cut the call without waiting for a response. 

On hearing the orders, Gabriel immediately turned to the expressionless Sea, as he relayed the Commander's orders to her, before they both rushed to his car and drove to their destination. 

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In a conference room, loud arguments could be heard before even entering. The hitting of chairs and the powerful voices of leaders who had been in power for long. They are the center of power in the country, but here in this meeting room they were all equals who had the right to drop a suggestion but it seems it was not going well, as their old faces turned red in arguments. 

"Nonsense! It's not up to that?! How dare you say that when it's not your grandson being killed. Sea-Z will be used, and that's final!" Chief Simon argued, hitting the table to prove his point. 

"What do you mean by it's not my grandson being killed! Are you cursing my grandson?!" 

The arguments continued but they were interrupted by the opening of the door, making all of them focus on the expressionless lady who just came in. Her body was dirty and bloody, with her hair left untidy, but it still couldn't hide her deadly and powerful aura. All she did was stand there but she was still able to stun some of them. She swept her eyes around the people sitting around the room, then looked down uninterestedly. 

"Sea, Come here and sit. We need you for something." The Commander who has called Gabriel ordered as he pointed to the chair next to him, waiting for her to sit which she did.

Commander Noah sighed as he looked around the conference, and seeing every one of them so quiet, he knew they were handling the matter to him, so he took the documents with him and handed it to Sea. 

"Go through it." He said after handing the papers to her. 

After going through it speedily, Sea looked at the man and briefly signaled to him to explain. 

"The country is in danger as the young and adult geniuses are getting killed. We sent out the military but they never came back. All security agencies have sent out their best subordinates but it was all futile. We didn't want to involve you, but last week, something huge happened." Commander Noah explained but on getting to the last words, his voice couldn't help but shake as he shivered, with his fist clenched in pain. He continued, "The young geniuses we nurtured with great care all got murdered in the private school, including the teachers! We protected them, we did! But they still did!" Pain and anxiety could be heard in his voice. 

Commander Noah looked at the expressionless Sea, who looked back at him calmly, her eyes soulless as she listened to him without a trace of sadness or sympathy, she just sat there listening like a puppet, But this is what the country wanted, a powerful puppet. 

"Now we need you to take on this mission and find the mysterious killer before they find out about the other secret school of geniuses. 

 "SEA-Z! Are you ready to go on this mission?!"